Tikka Khan

Tikka Khan (7 July 1915-28 March 2002) was the Chief-of-Staff of the armed forces of Pakistan from 3 March 1972 to 1 March 1976, and he was a veteran of the Second Indo-Pakistani War, the Balochistan Conflict, and Bangladeshi War of Independence.

Biography
Tikka Khan was born on 7 July 1915 to a Rajput Punjabi family in Kahuta Tehsil, near the city of Rawalpindi in British India (present-day Pakistan). He joined the British Army in 1940, and he fought in the Indian Army in World War II. He commanded an artillery regiment after Pakistan gained its independence in 1947, and he served as a Major-General in Pakistani Army after 1962. He was posted in Sialkot at the time of the Second Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and in 1969 he was promoted to Lieutenant-General. In March 1971 he took over command of Pakistani forces in East Pakistan, having recently returned from putting down a Baloch revolt - he was nicknamed "the Butcher of Balochistan". When Bangladesh attempted to win its independence, he gained the title "The Butcher of Bengal" for his human rights abuse and his brutality in fighting the Awami League during the Bangladesh Liberation War. From 1972 to 1976 he was the Chief-of-Staff of the Pakistani Army, and from the execution of President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979 until the death of President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, he was arrested several times for his political activities. Under Benazir Bhutto, he was made the Governor of Punjab in December 1988, but in August 1990 he retired from politics after the dismissal of Bhutto's government. He died in 2002 at the age of 86 after a long illness.